Three years ago, Apple apparent its advocate iPhone and was promptly sued by networking behemothic Cisco Systems, which was already application the iPhone brand for a band of voice-over-Internet telephones. Cisco said Apple had even asked about application the name, but allegedly began business its new apparatus afore any acceding was reached.
It took weeks of agreement afore the two acclimatized out of court.
But there was no complaint from Cisco on Monday, if Apple CEO Steve Jobs said his aggregation has absitively to bazaar the iPhone operating arrangement beneath the name "iOS" — even admitting Cisco has been application "iOS" for about two decades as the name of its own software, aswell accepted as the Internetwork Operating System, which runs on a array of Cisco's networking gear.
Cisco said Monday that it had already agreed to let Apple use the "iOS" name. Without advice agreement of the deal, Cisco said in a statement: "The authorization is for use of the brand alone and not for any technology."
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